[ RadSafe ] The hot and cold of history & journalistic credibility

[Ruth Sponsler]

Climate change and nuclear power are _not_ the same
thing.

Nuclear energy has been under attack by the
anti-science crowd for some 30 years...but the science
is more and more in its favor, showing a supurb safety
record and also showing that low dose-rate radiation
is harmless or perhaps beneficial for living
organisms.  The anti-nuclear groups are pretty well
scientifically discredited.

The science over in the weather dept. is showing, more
and more, that _fossil fuels_ are affecting climate. 
If we hadn't listened to the %&&*% anti-nuke
activists, we might have less of a climate problem.

Climate and nuclear power are two _very different_
issues.  It's really a shame when they get confused
like this.

It drives me equally up the wall when people (not on
this list) that say they want to do something against
climate change are against nuclear power...our biggest
non-CO2 energy source.

Let's go with scientific opinion in both the case of
nuclear power and the case of climate.  More reactors
means less CO2.

~Ruth


 
--- jjcohen at prodigy.net wrote:

> Howard & all,
>     I have a theory to account for what we have
> observed regarding the
> public's perception of global warming, nuclear
> power, environment
> degradation, and many other "threats" currently
> facing humanity.
> Simply stated, I hypothesize that there is a
> unwritten rule in all
> journalism schools that any student displaying an
> understanding or aptitude
> for science is precluded from graduating and
> attaining a degree in
> journalism. I can't prove my theory, but it
> certainly would explain a lot
> about what we have been observing. What do you
> think?
> Jerry Cohen
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "howard long" <hflong at pacbell.net>
> To: "Bill" <wwebber2004 at comcast.net>;
> <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:22 AM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] The hot and cold of history
> 
> 
> > Howard Maccabee PhD MD is an LLNL physicist turned
> radiation oncologist
> and founder of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. I
> have seen him exposed to
> dozens of presentations on global warming by Harvard
> astrophysicist Sallee
> Balliunas, Willy Soon, Springer, Moore, Balling and
> many others. I was his
> guest at an SF presentation featuring Michael
> Crichton MD, who started out
> supporting the movement but found data showed the
> opposite of what the
> carbon tax collectors claim, thus "The State of
> Fear" on my waiting room
> table.
> >   Howard Long
> 
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